11-05-2012, 02:51 PM
You won't blow half your budget on a SSD. The newest generation is right around the corner, and there have been pretty solid reductions on the current top tier. You get a solid 128G for about 70-80 after rebates if you're patient and I wouldn't be surprised to see them go lower than that on Black Friday/Cyber Monday.
That said, you don't need to have one. When you think about saving time booting, people grossly overstate the difference it makes. The real question is whether or not you feel like its important to load your games faster. I'm doing it for the computer I'm building soon, but in the grand scheme of things I'm really only doing it because everything else I'm doing is fairly high end for gaming.
I don't know your time frame but http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales,http://pcpartpicker.com/ can be pretty good places to find deals on what you want and price out everything he's doing for you
That said, you don't need to have one. When you think about saving time booting, people grossly overstate the difference it makes. The real question is whether or not you feel like its important to load your games faster. I'm doing it for the computer I'm building soon, but in the grand scheme of things I'm really only doing it because everything else I'm doing is fairly high end for gaming.
I don't know your time frame but http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales,http://pcpartpicker.com/ can be pretty good places to find deals on what you want and price out everything he's doing for you